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Politics : Polite Political Discussion- is it Possible? An Experiment. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (1642)	11/12/2007 8:48:39 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1695

hmmm I'm not sure I do think that. I just want to make them happy to come to class, and fired up about learning. I don't think you can really change people all that much. I think you can allow them to reach their own potential and follow their own lights, or you can frustrate them from doing so (or try to), but I feel my children came out of the womb pretty much their own little selves- and while they may have grown larger, they really haven't changed much. When I met my birth mom at 29 it was like meeting my twin- only a twin about 20 years older :-) So it made me think that genetics is much more important than anything else. Thus I do not labor under the notion that I can change people much, but I can make the world a happier place, and create spaces that allow people to be themselves and learn at their own pace, and I guess that changes the way people experience the world, but I'm not sure it changes them fundamentally- and I'm ok with that- I like almost all the people I meet, and I wouldn't want them to change.